Willcom introduces HYBRID W-ZERO3 smartphone, made by Sharp and running WiMo 6.5, avail end of Jan [JPN] http://bit.ly/4s9vBP

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Willcom began the reservation receipt of smart phone “HYBRID W-ZERO3″ (The serial number: WS027SH) announced last November of this company online shop on the 14th. Special Web site ( http://www.willcom-inc.com/ja/ad/hybrid_w-zero3/index.html ) is opened according to this. Touch & trial is executed in the Willcom handling shop in the whole country.

“HYBRID W-ZERO3″ is a smart phone of the slide type to adopt Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional (Japanese version) for OS. It corresponds to the high-speed data transmission of 7.2Mbps using FOMA net (3G) of NTT DoCoMo in addition to the communication with PHS.

3.5-inch (480×854 dots) display corresponding to the touch operation is installed, and the lower side of the slide is equipped with ten keys that can be operated by the sense similar to the cellular phone. In addition, the special key that can be accessed “Windows Live” one-touch is installed, and it is accessible without doing a complex setting of the ID password etc. in [kuraudosa-bisu] “Windows Marketplace” “My Phone” of Microsoft.

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